Final Post (Summary)

    When this project first started I found myself being very interested in this project. One reason for this is that I am business student, in Whitman, and the idea of an entrepreneurial project got the business part of my brain working. Another reason why this project interested me was that I got to learn about something that I knew little about in technology/computers and relate it to a topic I love sports.
    Throughout the project I discovered that the different types of idea that everyone had related to the lecture topics in many different ways. My idea was purely based on making a website that would provide those interested with information about the events other than the actual games that sports organisations hold. Since my idea was more of a service than a product, I would a few of the topic extremely relevant and many others difficult to related directly to my topic. Through looking at other ideas in the class,  I thought to myself that sometimes technology can relate more to products than to services, at least to the topics we learned in class. This could be really helpful to keep in mind when I take my entrepreneurial requirement class where we have to create a business/make a business plan.
     As the project progressed so did my idea. I would have never though to think of thinks like integrating an aggregation technique to compile all the information about the events.  Some of the topics that I found difficult to relate to my idea were the input and output and bits and bytes. One topic that I found extremely help full was the one about digital color, since my idea is mostly based off of a website or other information channels, this topic really made me think about aspects that I probably would not have thought about before this class. Overall I loved what I got out of this project and I feel like I really learned a lot not only though lecture but though they project as well.

These are blogs that I commented on:

Jeffery Cullen:

http://jc13245.blogspot.com/2011/10/summary.html?showComment=1320109987106#c704717048723523052

Christopher Peters:

http://thebasedblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/summary-post.html?showComment=1320111071544#c2013862574466386617

Michael Held:

http://ridethesilverbullettrain.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-post.html?showComment=1320112114160#c7604096133737586810

Blog Review post (#7)

    The blog that I choose to review is called the Makibie blog, and for a simple reason it is the blog of the Makibie company. Makibie is a interactive services that helps companies use technology to connect with costumers and achieve their eBusiness goals. Most of the content of this blog relates to helping business owner understand computers and how to use computers to improve their businesses.
    Although all the content of this blog doesn't directly relate to my idea of a event calendar for sports organization and their non-game events that they hold, I found some very relevant blog posts about data and information aggregation that is very useful to expanding my idea. This blog can be useful for many or all of us doing this project because it addresses problems that businesses run into when dealing with consumers through technology and technological issues that occur while running a business.
    I learned a lot from this blog, especially those about data aggregation. In those specific blog posts, Makibie gave numerous examples of current aggregation site like mint.com and familyhelathportfolio.com. In this posts they also described the power of using data aggregation; like this time saving nature simplicity that aggregation can provide.
     I know that this was suppose to by my blog review blog post but I cannot resist tying in today's lecture to my idea because it is so relevant to it. Today's lecture on databases really relates to my idea of the sports event calendar, like in the way in which my data can be organized. To use a database that would be to optimize my calendar/s function and if managed properly could prevent some future hardships, like Professor Rubin said in class.
      Here is the link to the blog, http://www.makibie.com/blog/?s=aggregation

Blog post 6

     One way in which last weeks lecture relates to my idea of an event calendar for sports organizations, for events other than their games schedule, is making a photo gallery of photos taken at the different events. When making a photo gallery the RGB color format must be taken to affect when taking and uploading the photos. Another way in which that lecture relates to furthering my idea is looking at the brightness and saturation to make it so that the pictures look the best compared to the format of the rest of the site.
        Another thing to think about from last weeks lecture when it come to my idea is the topic of Operating systems. One way of relating this topic to my idea is making a mobile phone application that can display and take in information for the multiple sports organization calendars. When doing this I must keep in mind that not every mobil OS is the same and that it can put a financial and time related burden on my idea.
        Since when I thought of this idea my main focus was not about making money, I think it would be an interesting idea, how making my concepts of the sports org. sports calendar an open source software. This could allow the idea to flourish and progress and not let my potential be the end of my idea's potential. Drawbacks to this would be that there would not be very many people interested in the idea so it might not be as productive a thing to do. Another drawback is that when someone makes changes I would have to live with them even if I liked it or not. Its not something I would be likely to do, but I found it interesting to think about.

Blog post 5

            This weeks lecture about bits and bytes may not be directly connected to my idea of a sports organization event calendar, but this topic i believe is very important to understand when it comes to my idea.  To create this calendar i will need to collect a lot information about the event.
           When I'm gathering this information, I believe that looking at the file size of the information that I am collecting will be very important in two ways. First would be in the way of money in which gathering large files of information may serve costly to financing my idea. Second would be the way of efficiency, i would like to be using the resources as efficiently as possible as to create an environment for my idea to succeed.
           Through the comment I received on my idea and through the meeting I had today to discuss my idea, it was brought to my attention that a great idea for my idea would be to invest in information gathering software that would gather all the information for the event of the internet and store it all in one place, and I agree that this would be great for my idea. Not only does it save the time of looking up the information but would also save me money in the long term by being a one time purchase instead of constant costs of searching for information. Also after this program has gathered all the information in one place, I would be able to use that time to organize the event information in ways of my choosing.

Post 4

         The lecture this week was about input and output with included RFID, Digital cameras, and Google Wallet. I thought that this weeks lecture could potentially be very useful to my idea of an event calendar for sports organizations, outside the games that they play. I think that even though RFID could potentially benefit my idea directly for the calendar, but I believe that RFID could benefit more indirectly at the events that are on the calendar.
          I think that for my idea, if you could create a host computer system that takes the information from the RFID tags and organizes it and could update the calendar instantaneously. One function that could be used is using RFID to record attendance to the events and post it as the event is going on. Another way in which you could use RFID would be like the example professor Rubin gave in class, to find missing children at the events, like what is done at the cowboys stadium.
          Another concept from lecture that could possible integrate into my idea would be the concept of Google wallet. If these organizations teamed up with Google they could probably create a kind of currency that could be used at the event on their calendars. I feel like this might be harder to organize and make happen for my idea, but I feel that it could have potential. I know that some organizations already have their own currency/gift card money, one example Sabrebucks for Buffalo Sabres, my favorite hockey team.

Blog post 3

      This past week we learned about protecting yourself from ID theft, How information is stored on hard drives, and basic information about the different parts of a computer. The lecture that I found to must relevant to concept of an event calendar, for sports organizations, would be the one about the components of the computer. I remember specifically from the lecture that Professor Rubin was talking about how different jobs and tasks require a computer to have different capabilities to best utilize the computer. I though that this could directly apply to my idea.
       For the creation and maintenance of this calendar I think that you would need a computer with a really good CPU, and ALU, to carry out the creation of this calendar. Another aspect of the computer that i think would be related to my idea would be the RAM of the computer. I believe to make this idea happen you would need a computer with great RAM because this calendar would need you to have many different application open and a lot of pages on the internet to gather the information. Specifically I believe that one computer could be used for the design of the calendar with 2 to 8 GB of RAM.
      The comment from the GA suggested for my idea of the event calendar that the creation of an aggregation site could be useful for all the different schedules for all the organizations. I believe that this is a great idea and that it would also affect the amount of computing power I would need to create, collect and synchronize the information from different sources on the internet, and would be a great thing to think about for my idea.

Blog post 2

     It might be a little hard to relate my idea of a event calendar for sports organizations, but here is what I came up with. In last weeks lectures we talked about how to improve privacy on social media and learned about how to use Excel and other spreadsheet programs. I believe that both lecture can relate to my idea is small but interesting ways.

    How my sports organization event calendar idea could use what we learned about social media is that this organization would be smart to use social media to promote their event calendar and those events, coincidentally one of the do's on the do's and don'ts list from lecture. When these organizations use the social media it would be smart for them to make sure they understood the privacy organizational pages and how they would like to use the social media as to now represent the event calendar, or the whole organization in a negative way.

    The best way in which I believe that my idea could relate to spreadsheets is for organizing the events for the calendar in a spreadsheet. One way in which you could do this is my making a spreadsheet to organize the events in a calendar format my using different cells for different days of the month, month and days of the week. Another way in which you can use spreadsheets for my idea of an event calendar for sports organisations is that you could categorize the events based on what type of event it is as to better organize and  keep the information, in case of questions or future need.